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Gender: 1. The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles

Generate: 1. Bring into existence 2. Give or supply 3. Produce (electricity) 3. Make children

Generosity: 1. The trait of being willing to give your money or time 2. Acting generously

Genuine: 1. Not fake or counterfeit 2. Not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed

Give up or agree to forego to the power or possession of another 3. Relinquish possession or control over 4. Relinquish to the power of another; yield to the control of another

Go back to bad behavior

Goal: 1. The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it 2. Place where something (e.g., a journey or race) ends

God: 1. The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religion 2. Any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force

God’s love: 1. The transforming power that drives our recovery. (Just for Today Pg.231)

Good: 1. Benefit 2. Moral excellence or admirableness 3. That which is good or valuable or useful 4. Having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified 5. Having the normally expected amount 6. Morally admirable 7. Deserving of esteem and respect 8. Promoting or enhancing well-being 9. Superior to the average 10. Agreeable or pleasing 11. Of moral excellence 12. Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude 13. Having or showing or arising from a desire to promote the welfare or happiness of others 14. Most suitable or right for a particular purpose 15. That which has the power to bring out the best in us and affirm our recovery. (Working Step Four in Narcotics Anonymous IP No.10 Pg.2)

Goodness: 1. That which is good or valuable or useful 2. Moral excellence or admirableness 3. Expressing surprise

Goodwill: 1. (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets) 2. The friendly hope that something will succeed 3. A disposition to kindness and compassion; benign good will 4. Is an action that includes others besides ourselves-a way that considers others as important in their own lives as we are in ours. (Another Look IP No.5)

Gossip: 1. Light informal conversation for social occasions 2. A report (often malicious) about the doings of other people 3. A person given to gossiping 4. Wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies 5. Chew the fat; shoot the breeze

Governing: 1. The act of governing; exercising authority 2. Impose regulations on 3. Direct or strongly influence the behavior of 4. Exercise authority over; as of nations 5. Responsible for making and enforcing rules and laws

Grafted: 1. Cause to grow together 2. In surgery

Grandiose: 1. Impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval 2. Affectedly genteel

Gratification: 1. The act or an instance of gratifying or satisfying 2. State of being gratified; great satisfaction

Gratify: 1. Make happy or satisfied 2. Yield (to); give satisfaction to

Gratitude: 1. A feeling of thankfulness and appreciation

Grim: 1. Harshly ironic or sinister 2. Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

Ground: 1. Fix firmly and stable 2. Instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject 3. Use as a basis for; found on

Growth: 1. The process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level 2. A progression from simpler to more complex forms 3. A process of becoming larger 4. The gradual beginning or coming forth 5. Something grown or growing 6. Is not the result of wishing, but of action and prayer (Basic Text Pg.36 & Just For Today Pg.238 & 380) 7. Is not best measured by physical age or levels of responsibility; Is our spiritual condition, the basis of our recovery. (Just For Today Pg.8) 8. Is a creative effort and purposeful behavior; it presupposes choice, change, and the capacity to face life on its own terms. (Another Look IP No.5)

Guidance: 1. Direction or advice as to a decision or course of action 2. The act of showing the way 3. The act of setting and holding a course

Guide: 1. Someone who shows the way by leading or advising 2. Something that offers basic information or instruction 3. A model or standard for making comparisons 3. Someone who can find paths through unexplored territory

Guidelines: 1. Guidance relative to setting standards or determining a course of action 2. A rule or principle that provides guidance to appropriate behavior

Guilt: 1. The state of having committed an offense 2. Remorse cause by feeling responsible for some offence